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Monday, September 12, 2005

Today while the blossom still clings to the vine

This is the song in my head today....

"Today while the blossom still clings to the vine,I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine,A million tomorrows shall all pass awayEre I forget all the joys that are mine today.I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover,You'll know who I am by the song that I sing. I'll feast at your table, I'll lie in your clover, I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing...Today while the blossom still clings to the vine,I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine,A million tomorrows shall all pass awayEre I forget all the joys that are mine today.I can't be contented with yesterday's glories,I can't live on promises winter to spring,This is my moment and now is my story,Who cares what tomorrow will bring?Today while the blossom still clings to the vine,I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine,A million tomorrows shall all pass awayEre I forget all the joys that are mine today."

Sung by the New Christy Minstrels and also by John Denver, its the Denver version I heard that I remember well. In a cassette lent to me by Chakri when I was in Class 8. It was a magical cassette with so many songs that I remember but never heard again. They pop up in my mind at unexpected moments and bring me back to the afternoon in Delhi, listening to them on our old Philips cassette player. Today with its memories of yesterdays.

I must somehow be connected to you all in some odd fashion as I've known and loved this song since I first heard it, I suppose in the 60's or 70's. I sing it often. Christy Minstrals, I believe, performed it on stage in a more innocent time than that in which we now live.My warm regards to you all.Keith

Thank you!! As a little girl, I learn to play this song on the organ...I recently started playing again and wanted to blip this song on Blip.FM, for a friend, but I couldn't remember who it was by..."The New Christy Minstrels" is what I was looking for! Thank you so much!